The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-25
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A TArTooER is making a fortune among the
workmen in New York city. He does his work
during the noon hour.
BUzzARDs are strangled by the o lor that issues
from Muncie Qnd.) gas well, which is failure
in every other respect.
THE champion marble player of Cumberland
Nd, according to the Ne,cs, is a lad named
Hilty, who shoots with his toes hayll & lost Doth
arms in a railroad accident.
An American coming back from Mexico snug
gled, at no little cost and trouble, some ''opals
he had paid good round sum for. When he
arrived in New Orleans he found that the opals
were glass; and worth 81 % per gross.
IT is q well known fact among railroad men
that on railroads running north and south the
west rails wear out the faster; that five rails
will wear out on the west side of the track
| while three are doing service on the east side.
A New YORK MAN goes about the city accom-
panied by frame scales, swinging platform,
| and q stout barrel in a go-cart, pushed by his
laboring man. Whenever he sees q dump of
coal the sidewalk he offers to weigh it for the
buyer.
| A TENNESSEE MoUNTAINEER recently found,
under ledge of rocks, the sword of a Confed-
crate officer. 1t proves to have belonged to a
Captain who was killed in a skirmish, and one of
his command hid it that it might not fall into
the hands of the Union forces.
AFTER the death of an eccentric Nashua, n.
H., man recently, who wa not supposed, even
by his wife or children, to have a cent in the
| world, between $500 and 800 were found hidden
| away in old letters, boxes bags, the fingers Of
| gloves and the toes of his stockings.
GREAT COMPLAINTS have been made about the
/ impure drinking water at Baltimore. Mr. Mar
tin, the chief engineer, says there is bad taste
| in the water, which is due to a. very small red
| ant which now infests the water. The ants are
DING out, and the water will haze its proper
! taste soon.
ALL associations of women, having for their
object the discussion of political questions at
public meetings are interdicted within the juris-
dction of the Prussian laws of association; and
it is stated officially that political economy is a
political question, when it has to do with the
subversion of the present social status.
LAST MONTH, says the London Truth, the fine
lantern tower of Peterborough Cathedral,
which has been rebuilding for more than four
years, was completed. The splendid illllm
mated ceiling has been reDainted but the UNIQUE
oak carving of the fourteenth century has been
carefully preserved in its original condition.
AMONG the subjects to be discussed at the
next convention of the Bankers Association
will be that Of the insecurity of bank safes as
many are now manufacturers subject which
has been discussed in financial journals recent
| ly Statistics maintain that over one hundred
safes are opened by burglars every month in
this country alone
! The Italian government has ordered the
| excavation of the site of the lost City of
| Sybaris, in that part of Southern Italy known as
| Magma Grecia." The city lies seven feet under
the water of the river Craft where it has re-
| posed for twenty five centuries The results are
| expected to be as interesting as those attending
! the resurrection of Pompe
| A PECULIAR blunder occurred in the engraving
of the plate from which the reverse side of the
| five-dollar certificates were printed 1t will be
noted that on the back of the certificate are the
fac SMILES of several silver dollars. The third
| one from the left corner of the certificate has
trust" spelled ''traSt." Where the word APP
pears in other places on the certificate it is
| spelled properly.
a GLASGOW engineering firm have constructed
what is said to be the largest planning machine
in the world, especially intended and designed
| to be employed in connection with the prepare
| ton of steel plates for the girders of railway
| bridge in New South Wales The weight of this
| vast machine is stated 20 be some thirty-fve
tons, and is capable of planning the edge of
| plate thirty-eght feet in length by five feet
| wide.
| HOUSTON, in Idaho, which three years ago
started out with 500 enthusiastic inhabitants, is
now an almost deserted village, having, all told
but nine residents. The Virginia City Enter
| prise explains that the town sprung up on the
| strength of big copper prospect; the copper
"petered" and the people skedaddled many of
| them leaving behind furniture and all else ex-
1 cept clothing and some light and valuable
| goods.
| WHILE freight train on a Southern Pacific
road was running about twenty miles an hour
near Cucamonga, Cal, an iron rail which had
been left too near the road by the section hands
| suddenly shot up through the floor of the
| caboose, demoishing the chair upon which Con-,
| ductor o Leary was sitting, smashing the desk
| at which he was writing, went through the side
| of the car over the door, and clear through the
roof OF the car
| DURING the last term there were % 1877 matricu-
lated students and I, 1873 unmatriculated students
| in Germany, or 30,995 in all. OF these 20 per
cent. were studying theology, 20 per cent law
and 81 per cent. medicine. The proportion of
students to instructors at the different UNIVERSE
ties is as follows At Kiel, six to one; at Heidel-
berg and jena, seven to one; at Glessen, Ros
took and Strasburg, eight to one; at Bonn Got
tngen and Conigsberg, nine to one; at Berlin
| and Leipsic nineteen to one, and at Wurzburg
twenty. one to one.
WHATEVER may be said for or against the
speculation in coffee which has advanced the
price of the bean in this market 200 per cent in
the past year, the growers in Hayti are pleased
with it. The price in Hayti in September was
So per hundred pounds to the dealer but at the
last advices he was getting S12 for the same
quantity. AS the imports and exports to and
from that island showed an appreciate falling
off last year, the dealers now feel encouraged
and the cultivators feel that they can now be
less parsimonious
AN Anglo-American exchange is proposed by
Americans in London. 1t is to be built on the
Thames embanknent, and is to include under
one roof gigantic hotel, banking establish
ment, a theatre for the production of purely
American dramas and an assembly room in
which travellers from the United States NAV be
fairly certain to meet compatriots who are doing
the tour of Europe. Ample funds for carving
out the scheme have been subscribed or are
within easy reach, and a site for the building is
now being secured.
THE name Of C. G. Leland is signed togthe fol-
lowing story: 1t is usual at Cambridge to an
nually give handsome sum- think it is R1OO
for the best poem. Some years ago a wag.
gish undergraduate. for mere Jest, made a
poem by piecing together fragments of all those
which had for many years been the winners
He expected that the committee would laugh at
it and throw it aside What was his horror at
learning that he had been adiudged the prize
and that bis name was published all over Eng
land as that of the victor. How he got out Of
the scrape know not, but no harm came to
him that ever heard Of.
liz Mexico beggars are called by the expressive
name 'Pordioseras' -God-SakesO. Sat
urday is universally recognized as ''Begears'
Day." and on that day they appear on the
streets in full force plying their trade with the
greatest industry. 1t repulsed they will make a
stately bow and murmur a benediction upon the
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